The Shard and the Serpent

Dark Romance meets grunge-punk-inspired Sci-Fi/Fantasy with a strong female lead desperate to avenge everything she lost, and an obsessive heir to a criminal empire who will stop at nothing to memorize every inch of her. "Sometimes, a girl’s true hero can only ever be herself." In Mirror, crime rules all. Abandoned kingdoms have risen into criminal empires, each specializing in a dark trade. Among them, a secret league of female assassins lurks, their vendettas paid only in blood. Rayze Angeline is a Shard Daughter, a female assassin known as the Angel of Sin, and one of the last remaining mortals blessed with magic. She can command the threads of the realm with a single word, folding oceans and controlling gravity.

But her specialty is pleasure threads. Entering a person's mind by fulfilling their darkest desires and commanding them to reveal their secrets.

One lay at a time, she will claim her vengeance against those who stole everything from her, but an encounter with her enemy, Warrick Ivor, leaves her craving what she can't have:

A Bond. Threads of Fate tethered between their souls. Strings she can cut, driving him into a mad craze and turning him into her perfect weapon.

For. Always.

•┈••✦☆✦••┈• The Shard and The Serpent is intended for an adult audience with content that may be triggering to some readers. Full warnings are available at the author's website, Wrathos Books. The Shard Daughters series is a series of standalone dark scifi-fantasy romance novels, each focusing on a different couple within Jinapher J. Hoffman's #1 best-selling realm of Mirror.

Though The Shard and The Serpent can be read on its own, readers are encouraged to try the completed dark fantasy romance trilogy, Fates of Mirror, first to avoid historical spoilers and recognize cameos. The Shard and The Serpent is part of Jinapher's overarching multiverse of feminine rage, Wrathos.